Awards

Best Young Investigator Paper Award

2023

Jiliang Hu (MIT)

Emergent phases of ecological diversity and dynamics mapped in microcosms (Science)

Xinli Chen (University of Alberta)

Tree diversity increases decadal forest soil carbon and nitrogen accrual (Nature)

2022

Mingzhen Lu (Princeton University)

Biome boundary maintained by intense belowground resource competition in world’s thinnest-rooted plant community (PNAS)

Chuliang Song (MIT)

Untangling the complexity of priority effects in multispecies communities (Ecology Letters)

2021

Bin Peng (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)

Towards a multiscale crop modelling framework for climate change adaptation assessment (Nature Plants)

Yupeng Qiu (North Carolina State University)

Warming and elevated ozone induce tradeoffs between fine roots and mycorrhizal fungi and stimulate organic carbon decomposition (Science Advances)

Best Student Paper Award

2023

Bo Yi (University of Iowa)

Resolving the influence of lignin on soil organic matter decomposition with mechanistic models and continental-scale data (Global Change Biology)

Feng Tao (Tsinghua University)

Microbial carbon use efficiency promotes global soil carbon storage (Nature)

Hengxing Zou (Rice University)

Priority Effects Determine How Dispersal Affects Biodiversity in Seasonal Metacommunities (American Naturalist)

2022

Baoyu Sun (East China Normal University)

Experimental warming reduces ecosystem resistance and resilience to severe flooding in a wetland (Science Advances)

Xianyu Yang (East China Normal University)

The role of demographic compensation in stabilising marginal tree populations in North America (Ecology Letters)

2021

Liyuan He (San Diego State University)

Microbial seasonality promotes soil respiratory carbon emission in natural ecosystems: A modeling study (Global Change Biology)

Wenzhe Jiao (Indiana University Indianapolis)

Observed increasing water constraint on vegetation growth over the last three decades (Nature Communications)

2020

Jinshi Jian (Virginia Tech)

A calculator to quantify cover crop effects on soil health and productivity (Soil Tillage & Research)